Site Reliability Engineer Job at Ascendion, McLean, VA

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  • Ascendion
  • McLean, VA

Job Description

About the Role:

  • We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Consultant to join our growing team. You will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of our cloud-based applications and infrastructure. You will be a key contributor in implementing SRE best practices, driving automation, and fostering a culture of reliability within the engineering organization. This role requires a strong understanding of SRE principles, hands-on AWS experience, and a passion for building and maintaining highly available systems.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, implement, and maintain SRE practices and frameworks, including defining and tracking SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs.
  • Champion the adoption of observability best practices, implementing robust logging, tracing, and monitoring solutions.
  • Develop and maintain dashboards and alerts using tools like New Relic and Splunk to proactively identify and address potential issues.
  • Contribute to the development and execution of chaos engineering experiments to improve system resilience.
  • Automate operational tasks and processes using scripting languages like Python, particularly in the context of microservices architectures.
  • Collaborate with development teams to improve the reliability and performance of applications throughout the software development lifecycle.
  • Lead incident response efforts, performing root cause analysis and implementing preventative measures.
  • Mentor and guide other engineers on SRE principles and best practices.
  • Drive the improvement of our CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins to enhance deployment frequency and reliability.
  • Proactively identify and address performance bottlenecks and scalability challenges.
  • Stay up-to-date with the latest SRE trends and technologies.

Qualifications:

  • Extensive hands-on experience with SRE concepts and practices, including SLI/SLO/SLA management, logging/tracing, observability, golden signals, chaos engineering, and alerting/monitoring.
  • Deep understanding of AWS services and infrastructure.
  • Proven leadership experience in a technical environment.
  • Strong programming skills, preferably in Python, with experience developing and deploying microservices.
  • Proficiency with DevOps practices and tools, particularly CI/CD and Jenkins.
  • Experience creating and maintaining dashboards using New Relic and Splunk.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
  • Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities.
  • Passion for building and maintaining highly reliable systems.

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